Pianoman83 Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 I saw this article posted in Yahoo Finance and thought that this would be a great opportunity for people to fight for our ideas. The related video grossly misinterprets her ideas and declares that neither the free market or Keysian economics are the answer but the truth is in the middle of the road. The intellectual sloppiness provides many great angles to approach. You will need to have a yahoo account in order to make a comment on this. Yahoo accounts are free and can be set up within a couple of minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas M. Miovas Jr. Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 Both Ayn Rand and the free market are being misrepresented in that video. Don't know if I will post a comment, since there are so many, but it looks like some people who are free market capitalist have posted a comment. We've got a ways to go in convincing others not familiar with Ayn Rand that Greenspan was a turncoat and the the free market did not fail. By the way, I read the article on another website, I think wsj, but I'm not sure. There is a thread about it, I think. The long and short of it is that so long as commentators, like that video, are blaming the free market -- as if Greenspan and Bush were champions of the free market!!! -- we have an uphill battle. I don't know about the future of this country if pragmatic in between policies of capitalism versus socialism are being accepted. The slide towards socialism will continue, but maybe by the next twenty year enough people will have read Ayn Rand and understand it well enough to stage a rebellion. But living through the next twenty years might be rough. At least Ayn Rand and capitalism are being mentioned a lot in the news these days -- they are being dismissed and misrepresented, but I think there are enough people out there who will get the right ideas and make a difference, even if it takes another twenty years. Any philosophical revolution takes time, roughly 100 years after the introduction of that philosophy, so we are ahead of the curve, so to speak, since it has only been 50 years since Atlas Shrugged was published. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IchorFigure Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 Posting the same comment here that I left on NoodleFood. It's hard to believe those economic commenters are real. They seem more like bombastic Onion caricatures. They utterly missed the point and assumed his WSJ piece was a literal proposal to abolish income tax to turn the economy around. How thick can you get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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